Freywa wrote:zdr is a problem with the community because he will not reveal his name or the techniques used to find the spaceship. I have reached out to him to get his details out, but it seems he's a "hit-and-run" user who only cares about the fame.

Conway's Life is a field of mathematics; like all fields of mathematics the research into it is open and honest. Yet zdr is selfish (for the reasons mentioned above). What can we do about this?

He's helped us find a new damn spaceship be thankful for that.

Not everyone wants to reveal their personal details. What we do know is that they used gfind, and the ship popped up fairly quickly.

Freywa wrote:zdr is a problem with the community because he will not reveal his name or the techniques used to find the spaceship. I have reached out to him to get his details out, but it seems he's a "hit-and-run" user who only cares about the fame.

Conway's Life is a field of mathematics; like all fields of mathematics the research into it is open and honest. Yet zdr is selfish (for the reasons mentioned above). What can we do about this?

Freywa wrote:zdr is a problem with the community because he will not reveal his name or the techniques used to find the spaceship. I have reached out to him to get his details out, but it seems he's a "hit-and-run" user who only cares about the fame.

Conway's Life is a field of mathematics; like all fields of mathematics the research into it is open and honest. Yet zdr is selfish (for the reasons mentioned above). What can we do about this?

Yeah, he's so selfish for giving us an entirely new spaceship, with a unique speed, one of the slowest yet, and releasing it to the public. That's so selfish! (Sarcasm if you couldn't tell)

This post was brought to you by the letter D, for dishes that Andrew J. Wade won't do. (Also Daniel, which happens to be me.)Current rule interest: B2ce3-ir4a5y/S2-c3-y

Freywa wrote:zdr is a problem with the community because he will not reveal his name or the techniques used to find the spaceship. I have reached out to him to get his details out, but it seems he's a "hit-and-run" user who only cares about the fame.

Conway's Life is a field of mathematics; like all fields of mathematics the research into it is open and honest. Yet zdr is selfish (for the reasons mentioned above). What can we do about this?

Yeah, he's so selfish for giving us an entirely new spaceship, with a unique speed, one of the slowest yet, and releasing it to the public. That's so selfish! (Sarcasm if you couldn't tell)

Freywa wrote:zdr is a problem with the community because he will not reveal his name or the techniques used to find the spaceship. I have reached out to him to get his details out, but it seems he's a "hit-and-run" user who only cares about the fame.

Conway's Life is a field of mathematics; like all fields of mathematics the research into it is open and honest. Yet zdr is selfish (for the reasons mentioned above). What can we do about this?

Hasn't thunk already brought up a lot of reasons not to be so stringent?

Also, note that the same formalism you advocate for is one of the reasons that the guy who is credited with solving the Poincare conjecture, Grigori Perelman, dislikes the mathematics community so much... Everyone wanted to get up close and know more about him and he really just wanted to be left alone. So you need to also show some respect first, I think, and not be so rapid to accuse when he's only just joined. Don't scare people away before they have a chance to get to know the community - that will never help.

He only cares about the fame? He didn't even realize it was going to bring any fame at all! He seems to not have much time to devote to answering the rapid barrage of questions, so give him time to respond. It's like we've all turned into the spammers and are drowning the only guy with the answers.

Freywa wrote:zdr is a problem with the community because he will not reveal his name or the techniques used to find the spaceship. I have reached out to him to get his details out, but it seems he's a "hit-and-run" user who only cares about the fame.

Conway's Life is a field of mathematics; like all fields of mathematics the research into it is open and honest. Yet zdr is selfish (for the reasons mentioned above). What can we do about this?

. Don't scare people away before they have a chance to get to know the community - that will never help.

He only cares about the fame? He didn't even realize it was going to bring any fame at all! He seems to not have much time to devote to answering the rapid barrage of questions, so give him time to respond. It's like we've all turned into the spammers and are drowning the only guy with the answers.

Just... chill.

This exactly.

I'd be a bit scared if my first post caused such turbulence in a community.

muzik wrote:What we do know is that they used gfind, and the ship popped up fairly quickly.

I don't think it was gfind -- zdr thought there might be a bug in gfind, accounting for why the copperhead wasn't found much sooner (by people running gfind).

How much have people looked at constructing other phases of the copperhead, besides the one that can be reached by collapsing a fumarole? I was thinking that the phase that includes two sabotaged colliding gliders didn't look too awful:

muzik wrote:What we do know is that they used gfind, and the ship popped up fairly quickly.

I don't think it was gfind -- zdr thought there might be a bug in gfind, accounting for why the copperhead wasn't found much sooner (by people running gfind).

Exactly. Maybe nobody had ever searched for a c/10 orthogonal in gfind before, although this seems pretty unlikely. It could be that different settings or something had been used, but I haven't even seen the interface of gfind so I'm not 100% with that either.

And can someone make an updated version of this image? We now have both c/10 and 31c/240 to add to the family, it would be nice to have those included in the image.

muzik wrote:Maybe nobody had ever searched for a c/10 orthogonal in gfind before, although this seems pretty unlikely. It could be that different settings or something had been used, but I haven't even seen the interface of gfind so I'm not 100% with that either.

Josh Ball ran the relevant gfind search and found it in about an hour. This ship could have easily been found 15 years ago. In fact, this ship has a predecessor that's so small, it could have been found by a brute-force search of all patterns in a 3*11 bounding box:

It might be interesting to use a distributed search to run every pattern in some small bounding boxes or bounding diamonds. I imagine much of the code and framework could be taken from the Catagolue project.

dvgrn wrote:I don't think it was gfind -- zdr thought there might be a bug in gfind, accounting for why the copperhead wasn't found much sooner (by people running gfind).

Indeed, as zdr said:

zdr wrote:This is why I suspected a bug in gfind, it is small enough that someone should have found it by now.The search takes 19 seconds with a basic dfs program.

Since gfind is not depth-first, and certainly can't find this ship in 19 seconds, it's reasonable to conclude that zdr used a custom-made program. I would certainly like to hear how this program works directly from zdr.

If I were to guess, I would suspect that the search only looks at the pattern in a single generation, which takes advantage of the width-6 generations. With a bit of luck in the search order, it might give the spaceship fairly quickly. Even still, 19 seconds seems awfully fast. I would love to see if there are any clever tricks that helped with the discovery.

muzik wrote:Maybe nobody had ever searched for a c/10 orthogonal in gfind before, although this seems pretty unlikely. It could be that different settings or something had been used, but I haven't even seen the interface of gfind so I'm not 100% with that either.

Alexey_Nigin wrote:Shamelessly transferring my work to other people, what is the repeat time of the current best synthesis?

375 ticks seems to be the current lower limit for 22 gliders. At the expense of one more glider, it's 373 ticks.

Interestingly, though, the same recipe fired from a rake could allow for much closer spacing. Even the 375-tick synthesis is actually capable of placing a copperhead the minimum distance (148 ticks) in front of another one:

Some of my thoughts on why the copperhead was overlooked. Conventional wisdom says lower period ships are easier to find with gfind. This is almost true; for a fixed width, lower period searches take less time to run. (This might not be true either...) Since no c/8 ships are known, it must be even more difficult to find a c/9 or c/10, so why bother looking. The only hope you'd have of finding a higher period ship is if it's not very wide. But what are the chances of that; surely if it's not so big we'd have seen it by other methods, like from a soup? The copperhead happens to be in this in between category: narrow enough to be found by a modest gfind search, but big enough where we haven't (yet...) seen it appear from soup. It's impossible to tell if this is the last such "small" ship or if there's other discoveries to be made if we'd only look around the corner.

First, let's congratulate zdr on the scope of their discovery, the copperhead, whoever they may be. This may be the CGoL equivalent of the Babson task.

Then...

Freywa wrote:zdr is a problem with the community because he will not reveal his name or the techniques used to find the spaceship. I have reached out to him to get his details out, but it seems he's a "hit-and-run" user who only cares about the fame.

Conway's Life is a field of mathematics; like all fields of mathematics the research into it is open and honest. Yet zdr is selfish (for the reasons mentioned above). What can we do about this?

As a bunch of other people have mentioned, 1) pseudonymity is not a recipe for fame, 2) zdr has been quite honest about their discovery and the method of depth-first search used to discover it, and 3) no matter what someone discovers, it is their choice what information about themselves they wish to divulge, and you are not entitled to such knowledge if they decline to share.

Sawtooth with expansion factor 6, based on zdr's c/10 copperhead spaceship....Guns of any period 48N for N>=2 could be used, giving expansion factor N+1.

In fact the period only needs to be a multiple of 16, if we modify things a bit, so we can get expansion factors that aren't integers. It takes some extra work, because when the loaf is pulled all the way back it can be in any of 3 different positions, and we have to arrange for its deletion to release another HWSS in all 3 cases. The smallest period that I was able to make work is 112, giving expansion factor 10/3:

#C Sawtooth with expansion factor 10/3, based on zdr's c/10 copperhead#C spaceship.#C A p112 shotgun produces salvos consisting of a HWSS and two LWSSs.#C Usually the HWSS is deleted by a glider, but occasionally one is#C allowed to escape. When it does, it eventually hits the back of#C the copperhead, which starts a loaf being pulled back toward the#C shotgun. When the loaf reaches the shotgun, it's deleted, in one#C of 3 different ways, and another HWSS escapes.#C Because the e.f. is not an integer, there's no simple formula for the#C generations when particular things happen. However, a recursive formula#C exists: Define P(0)=245 and P(n+1) = (10 P(n) - c(P(n) mod 3))/3, where#C c(0)=735, c(1)=1435, and c(2)=1295. Then a HWSS hits the back of the#C copperhead in generation P(n). The loaf is destroyed in generation#C (8*P(n)-d(P(n) mod 3))/3, where d(0)=951, d(1)=1181, and d(2)=1069.#C The minimum repeating population is 2097. It occurs in generation#C (8*P(n)-e(P(n) mod 3))/3, provided that P(n) mod 3 is 0 or 1, where#C e(0)=1512 and e(1)=1736. The successive maximum populations occur#C around generations P(n) and are approximately 3*P(n)/70.#C Dean Hickerson, 3/8/2016x = 280, y = 250, rule = 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P.S., later that day: I had messed up the formulas for P(n) and the other relevant generations. I've fixed that now.

P.S. (3/26/2016): Bill Gosper reminded me that the figure 8 oscillator used in the HWSS synthesis can be replaced by a boat, a reaction found by David Buckingham. So the sawtooth can be reduced slightly:

#C Sawtooth with expansion factor 10/3, based on zdr's c/10 copperhead#C spaceship.#C A p112 shotgun produces salvos consisting of a HWSS and two LWSSs.#C Usually the HWSS is deleted by a glider, but occasionally one is#C allowed to escape. When it does, it eventually hits the back of#C the copperhead, which starts a loaf being pulled back toward the#C shotgun. When the loaf reaches the shotgun, it's deleted, in one#C of 3 different ways, and another HWSS escapes.#C Because the e.f. is not an integer, there's no simple formula for the#C generations when particular things happen. However, a recursive formula#C exists: Define P(0)=245 and P(n+1) = (10 P(n) - c(P(n) mod 3))/3, where#C c(0)=735, c(1)=1435, and c(2)=1295. Then a HWSS hits the back of the#C copperhead in generation P(n). The loaf is destroyed in generation#C (8*P(n)-d(P(n) mod 3))/3, where d(0)=951, d(1)=1181, and d(2)=1069.#C The minimum repeating population is 2082. It occurs in generation#C (8*P(n)-e(P(n) mod 3))/3, provided that P(n) mod 3 is 0 or 1, where#C e(0)=1512 and e(1)=1736. The successive maximum populations occur#C around generations P(n) and are approximately 3*P(n)/70.#C Dean Hickerson, 3/8/2016. Reduced with Bill Gosper's help, 3/26/2016.x = 280, y = 250, rule = 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It is impolite to ask, but what do you think about putting it onto the main page? That page hasn't been updated since 2014, you know.

Good idea. I have been sneakily updating that slow-salvo article whenever there's a new development, but the differences don't show up on the main page. Anyway, yes, it's high time for some new material!

At the moment I think it's only new posts to b3s23life.blogspot.com and pentadecathlon.com/lifenews that automatically show up on the conwaylife.com main page. Would it be okay if I reposted your article on LifeNews?